Totsukawa-mura, Yoshino-gun, address: Totsukawa-mura, Yoshino-gun, Nara, site title: Totsukawa Village Official Website, camera titles: “Totsukawa Village Live Camera,” five cameras, click the Japanese links or the cameras in the map, the pink: Tentsuji Pass, the yellow: The Suspension Bridge Tanise, the red: The Road Condition of Uenoji District, the green: The Village Office, the blue: The Road Condition of Nanairo District

JR Yamato Line, Oji-cho, address: Oji-cho, Kita Katsuragi-gun, Nara, site title: Thank You Dou, camera title: Oji-cho, Nara, Live Camera, Click the first photo image in the left side of the site.

Yamato River, address: Yamato Koriyama City, Kawanishi-cho, Misato-cho, site title: Yamato River Office, camera title: The Downstream of Yamato River, Banjo-cho, Yamato Kouriyama City, Click the photo image link in the right side of the site.

Meihan Expressway and Keinawa Expressway, address: Nara, site title: Nara National Highway Office, dozens of cameras in the site, click the road photo image links from the left side menu, the links of the cameras, of the site.

Nara Prefecture Tourism Information

The prefectural capital of Nara is Nara City. The prefectural population is about 1.4 million people and the population of Nara City is about 360,000 people. Nara Basin of northwest province is about only 8% of the prefectural land, it is the dense region where about 90% of the population lives. The south of the Yoshino River is called Yoshino southern mountains, and it is famous as much forest, Yoshino cedar locality. Once referred to as the “Yamato Province”, and it is the land that Yamato Court originated. Fujiwara-kyo (Fujiwara Capital) in Kashihara city and Heijo-kyo (Heijo Capital) in Nara city were the former centers of politics . There are many cultural assets such as temples and shrines, and Nara is the prefecture with the most National Treasure buildings in Japan such as Todai-ji Temple, Kasuga Shrine and Toshodai-ji Temple.
In addition, “Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area”, “Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara” and “Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range” have been registered as world cultural heritages. It is famous in the world as an ancient city along with Kyoto, in 2010 it was visited by tourists of about 44 million people.
The prefectural specialties are strawberries, watermelon, persimmon, tea, Narazuke, goldfish and Yoshino cedar. The local cuisines include “Kakinoha-zushi (persimmon leaves sushi)”, pressed sushi rice with fillets of fish wrapped in persimmon leaves, and “Miwa Somen“, purified noodles of stretched thin flour by hand total.
“Todai-ji Temple” in Nara city is the temple that was built by Emperor Shomu in the 8th century first half, and Todaiji Rushana-butsuzou, which is called the Great Buddha of Nara in general, is famous. The height of the Great Buddha is about 15m, width about 20m, the size of the face is also more than 5m, and it was burned twice, the current Buddha Statue is the statue that was revived in the Edo era.